Category: Pictures from Italy
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Dickens and the lottery
What better way to comment on Powerball mania than a feature on Dickens's views on the Neapolitan…
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From the book pile
I've got a MESS of books to cover, so there'll be more book review posts in…
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Happy Easter!
This Easter Sunday was a day so bright and blue: so cloudless, balmy, wonderfully bright: that…
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Farewell to Italy
I've finished reading Pictures from Italy, and a pleasant journey it has been. And let us…
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The catacombs
We haven't had a quote from Pictures from Italy in a while (I'm getting close to…
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The Coliseum
To see it crumbling there, an inch a year; its walls and arches overgrown with green;…
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa
The moon was shining when we approached Pisa, and for a long time we could see,…
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Juliet’s tomb
. . . I went off, with a guide, to an old, old garden, once belonging…